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No. 875,954. PATENTBD JAN. 7, 1908.

E. B. ROUEOH. DOLL.

APPLICATION FILED 111213.19, 1906.

, gunentor $1; 11 L s gtimmzn I E! R0 WQ! 0\'\ sewe together,read V dollso that any irregularities in the UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

- EDWARD E. ROUECH, OF DETROIT,'MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR, BY MESXEASSIGNMENTS, TO

CHARLES J. HGLTON, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

DOLL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 7, 1908.

T 0 all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, EDWARD E. Rouse-macitizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county, ofWayneand State of Michigan, have invented a new and Improved Doll ,ofwhich the following is a speci fication.

1 My improvement relates to the manufacture of dolls of which the wholeor larger portion of the body is made of cloth, which is stuffed withsaw-dust, excelsior, cotton-bat ting or similarsubstances, and theobject of my improvement is to provide a doll of this kind in which theface and the back of the head may be of a different material from thebody portion, and in' which a separate padding isinserted between theface and body portions, and if desired, between'the back of the head andbody portion. i

My invention consists in forming a doll body with a separate face, thematerial of'the face being secured at the same seam that unites thefront and back of the body;'it consists further in placing 'a thin sheetof soft resilient material, such as soft cotton-batting, between theface portion and the bodv of thefe' lin 0 the body, or in the coarsenessof the matei'ial of which the body is made will not be noticed.- In theaccompanying drawing Figure 1 is a side and Fig. 2 a front view of atrunk of a doll embodying my invention. Fig. 3 is an enlar ed view ofthe material of the body to be turned. Fig.4. is a cross section on t eline A-A of F g. '3. Fig. 5 is. a cross sectionon the same line afterthe body has been turned and filled. Similar referencecharactersrefer tolike parts throu bout the several views.

Dolls of t e kind indicatedabove, usually known as rag dolls have longbeen made by printing the head ends of the two pieces of cloth that formthe body, to'represent the face and back of the head, This necessitatedthat the whole body. be formed'of finematerial, for otherwise the facewould be poorly expressed because of the coarse inaterial used. In mypresent construction I form the face portion 1 of the doll of fine softcloth, such as mercerized cotton, and after proper treatment, print thefeatures by means of a photographic process. I may form the back 2 ofthe head in a similar manner, but thisis' not so essential, as arepresentation of hair can be printed directly onto the terial 10, suchits cost is very low.

- coarser material in any other desirable manner. The face isthenstitched to the body front 3 along the line 4, and if a separate bac ofhead is to he used, this is stitched-in a similar manner along the line5. Thin sheets of batting 9 or other desirable soft material are placedbetween the arts 1 and 3 and between the part 2 and ack of body 6, andthe parts are placed together as shown inFigs. 3

and 4, the outer prmted sides of the face and backbeing placed againsteach other. The parts are then sewed together along the line 7. Afterthis hasbeen done, the bodyis turned inside out, thus bringing theportions of the cloths beyond theseams inside as shown inFig. 5. Thebodyis thenfilled with the desired maas sawdust, bran, excelsior orcottonbatting, and the end 8 closed by hand sewing. It will be seen thatthis forms a smooth even side seam for the head; it produces a smooth,soft face and back; it permits a perfect hotographic' likeness to besecured on to a ody of chea material; and Instea of mercerized cotton;silk or other smooth material can be used, and the features may beprinted thereon by other than hotographic process, al-

though I consider t at process the best.

The arms and legs of the. doll are secured to the body in any desirablemanner, but this forms no part of my resent invention. Havin what I caim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isi

1. In a doll, the combination of a body composed of two complementaryparts adapted to parts being secured mg the free edges rate face andback back of the body edges, and secured at the remainder of-their edgesbetween the edges of the body portions, the edges of the separate faceand back being inturned as are the'edges of the body portions, andsheets of soft material placed together by a seam hav turned inwardly, a.sepa secured to the front and between the separate face and back andthe body portions res ectively.

2. In a doll, tie combination of a body composed of two complementaryparts adapted to form the front and back, said parts being securedtogether at their edges with inturned ed es, a separate photographic nowexplained my improvement,

form the front and back, said.

respectively at their lower face secured .at t ie bottom to the outsideof the front of the body, and at the remainder of its outer edge betweenthe inturned edges outer edge between the inturned edges of the 10 ofthe portions of the body, and. a sheet of portions of the body. softmaterial placed back of the separate In testimony whereof, I have signedmy face. name to this specification in the presence of 3. In a doll, the'combinstion of abody two subscribing Witnesses. composed of twocomplementary parts EDWARD E. ROUECHI vadapted. to formv the front andback, said Witnesses! parts bein secured together with inturned GERTRUDEB. RATTENEURY, edges, an a separate face secured at 1ts EDWARD N.PAoELsEN

